When we had our first child we just couldn’t agree on his surname. I wanted him to have mine, my wife wanted him to have her’s. So we did that awful compromise and he became a double-barreled Booth-Farmer. I don’t like it, but it seemed the least-worst option.
We know one couple that changed both their names to a third name, but this seems frankly bonkers. But I do wonder what happens if Henry Booth-Farmer marries Sophie Rees-Harmer… will their first child be Maisie Booth-Farmer-Rees-Harmer?
I think I’ve found a solution. There’s a girl in Henry’s class with the surname Booth. He should marry her and – in a gesture of right-on feminist solidarity – ensure he and their children take her name.